Quotes and Sayings About Ethos
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It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.
-- Alan Cumming -
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
-- Alison Bechdel -
Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.
-- Bell Hooks -
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
-- Bernard M. Oliver -
I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.
-- Billy Boyd -
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.
-- Blake Bailey -
Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.
-- C. Wright Mills -
It's incredible to be working with Mr Armani and his team at Emporio Armani. I feel an affinity to the brand ethos and have been a long time admirer of their designs.
-- Calvin Harris -
No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman -
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
-- Daniel Defoe -
Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.
-- Daphne Koller -
Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.
-- Darren Johnson -
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
-- Edward Hopper -
Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky -
The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth.
-- Eric Schlosser -
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
-- Frances Conroy -
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value...
-- Greg Graffin -
Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.
-- Hal Rothman -
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
-- Henry A. Wallace -
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
-- Herbert Read -
I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here.
-- Iain Dowie -
I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.
-- J. C. Watts -
To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
-- J. Philippe Rushton -
To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.
-- Jane Campion -
This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.
-- Jane Campion -
Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.
-- Janet Morris -
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
-- Jerry Saltz -
Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?
-- John Hockenberry -
No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley
-- John Maeda
